Only a week after the arrival in Rome of Bishop Michel Aupetit's letter of resignation, addressed to Pope Francis, the latter accepted it on Thursday, December 2, which is a very short deadline.
Four years, almost to the day, after his appointment to the prestigious post of Archbishop of Paris, Mgr Aupetit, 70, former general practitioner, ordained priest at the age of 40, therefore resumes his charge.
He explains in a short letter that he could not continue to be one of the major figures of the Church of France in such a climate of "
suspicion
" and in the face of such "
loss of confidence
".
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